This is my third year attempting to garden in the spring/summer. The last two years, my garden was substantially smaller and I started everything from plants. Since I live in Marshville, NC now and had a bit more room for a garden, Casey helped me create cultivate this rocky soil and I planted everything from seeds. I'd been too nervous before to plant seeds but had found that many people had better success with seeds than plants. I wasn't sure what was going to happen consider our soil and this being my first year planting seeds.It hasn't all been a success. I tried somethings that were planted too late and couldn't harvest from them. I also tried a few vegetables that were casualties of the tiller. I ate up some pepper plants and a watermelon vine with that earlier in the month. I also began to get aggravated with my tomato plants that weren't growing very quickly and decided to pull them up since we don't eat them anyways. Over the past month or so I had tweaked and replanted certain vegetables, i'd heard worked better out here in this Marshville soil.So, as of now, I have beans, zucchini, squash, cucumbers, watermelon, corn and sunflowers which all have done wonderfully. I walked out into the garden a few nights ago just to check on things and found growing vegetables everywhere. After, doing a happy dance, I decided I would spend some time weeding and harvesting today. So, today, I harvested cucumbers and zucchini for the first time ever! I'm hoping to eat some of my success tonight for dinner! I started out as someone whom wanted to take a crack at this love/hate relationship(gardening) and over time have learned more and more about what not to do and now I can say that I have a healthy, green, flourishing garden!
